, in addition to the tax increases that are comes into play, the obama care tax increase and increase on incomes higher than $400,000 a year in earnings, you know, that's going to create some drag. but, you know, i get a sense, kelly, when we do our own analysis at hamilton play strategies, we think that the u.s. economy will be able to power through that this year, even with the -- even with the drag. so, you know, solid growth, but certainly not matching some of the euphoria that we've seen in the last couple of months. >> it's extraordinary because if you say this is a 1.5% drag which is roughly some of the estimates i've seen lately on this and where gdp is almost in the 2.5% range that would suggest we're somewhere in the growth of 1.4%. you could understand why markets are doing better. but unfortunately the what could have or should have doesn't matter too much. if it's the opposite, it will be are reminder of how growth was in the fourth quarter. >> i think the ee zester and the tax increases will take the top off of growth. i think we would have been looking at a very good ye